Prairie Schooner

Natalie Diaz - A Body of Athletics: An Introduction to the Possibilities of Sport, essay
Sherman Alexie - Victory, poem
Joan Naviyuk Kane - A Few Lines for Jordin Tootoo, poem
Patricia Smith - Bolting into Throat, poem
Ashaki M. Jackson - Professional Wresting Holds, poem
Kamilah Aisha Moon - Perfect Form, poem
Traci Brimhall - Losing to the Invisible: An Ars Poetica, essay
Alberto Ríos - The Cock Fight Place, poem
Kat Page - High School Yoga, poem
Adrian Matejka - Boxing Out, poem
Afaa M. Weaver - Losing the 440-Yard Dash, poem
Danez Smith - last summer of innocence, poem
b: william bearhart - The End of Golf, poem
Cornelius Eady - From Heaven, My Father Sends His Regrets, poem
Lisa Olstein - Run Every Race as if It’s Your Last, poem
francine j. harris - In the outfield, daydreaming, poem
Arisa White - tail, poem
Porochista Khakpour - Federer as Irreligious Experience, essay
Nate Marshall - prayer when knees give, poem
Jeffrey McDaniel - The Church of Michael Jordan, poem
Kaveh Akbar - Dennis, poem
Hannah Ensor - Mudita World Peace, essay
Aaron Smith - Liquid, poem
Paul Tran - He takes me, poem
Malachi Black - Bildungsroman, poem
Trevino Brings Plenty - Catch, poem
Kevin Goodan - untitled, poem
Israel Wasserstein - Baseball, poem
Meg Day - Infield Contrapuntal, poem
Dean Rader - Self-portrait with Ghost, Rising, poem
Gary Jackson - Run, poem
January Gill O’Neil - The Rookie, poem
Lisa Fay Coutley - Why to Run Racks, essay
Elyse Fenton - The Chain, poem
Fatimah Asghar - To Prevent Hypothermia, poem
Dorianne Laux - Alone in the Schoolyard at Dusk, poem
Brett Fletcher Lauer - Sports History, poem
James Thomas Stevens - El Barril, poem
Eileen Myles - St. Joseph Father of Whales, poem
David Tomas Martinez - Sports Analogy, poem
R. T. Smith - Maricón, poem
Joseph Millar - Bad Love Affair, poem
Alicia Mountain - Southpaw Skin the Gloves, poem
Matthew Dickman - Can We Have Our Ball Back?, poem
Carmiel Banasky - Rink, story
Amber Dermont - SkateTown, USSR, story
Brendan Constantine - Of Competition, poem
Eugene Gloria - The Yo-Yo Heir’s Lament, poem
Lynn Melnick - Landscape with B-side and Air Hockey, poem
Diane Wakoski - Red Runner, poem
Vera Pavlova - Russian Sport, poem
Chip Livingston - Stadium Mocs, poem
Chee Brossy - The Tribes, poem
Jon Davis - Beyoncé at Shootaround, poem
Maya Washington - Project Artifacts: Through the Banks of the Red Cedar, poem
Ada Limón - American Pharoah, poem
Holly Amos - my feet in continual guidance of air, poem
Meghan O’Rourke - A Note on Process, essay
Michael Wasson - A Boy & His Mother Play Dead at Dawn, poem
L. Lamar Wilson - Games, poem
Peter Grandbois - Courtesy, essay
Nandi Comer - ¡Sangre! ¡Sangre! ¡Sangre!, poem
Yesenia Montilla - A Perfect Game, poem
Stacey Lynn Brown - Polaroid: Links, poem
Rebecca Lauren - Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman’s Daughter Got Her Period on TV, poem
Ruth Madievsky - Shadowboxing I, poem
James Ciano - Self-portrait before Penalty Kick, poem
Shann Ray - Poor Man’s Love Song, poem
Tomás Q. Morín - Mannish Boy, essay
Joaquin Zihuatanejo - Fight or Flight, poem
Terrance Hayes - Between Practice, poem